Jumbo (formerly JuBox) is a Julia distribution that comes with commonly used scientific packages out of the box. Load Makie, DifferentialEquations, or any included package immediately—all pre-compiled on GitHub CI and ready to use. Additional packages can be installed via Pkg without triggering reco…

Yes, the package versions are locked in the distribution. If you try to resolve with an outdated Manifest, you’ll get an error. Just run ]up to update your dependencies. For reproducibility, I recommend using Julia installed through juliaup.

This seems pretty cool. Big projects like DifferentialEquations always take a lot of time in pre-compilation. I think some kind of binary distribution is necessary.

I don’t know why it has to start with ‘Ju’ at all, we know it’s Julia. If you must use ‘Julia’, how about Julia2Go.jl as in a take away meal. Or JuliaSci2Go.jl I would not want the name conflated with SciML.jl or such-like. I get the ‘box’ thing, you want to have it as an ‘out-of-the-box’ ready to …

Thank you, everyone, for voting! Given the strong preference for Jumbo, I have decided to go with that name. I’ve made an updated release that also includes CSV and JuMP packages. The release assets will be uploaded over the next 2 hours as GitHub CI completes the builds. I’ll update the title and …

Thank you Janis, this sounds absolutely perfect for me. I am using Julia in my university lectures and we have big problems with installation on the university machines: the university effectively deletes the user directory on log out. So all julia packages get deleted, so on new log in, you’re hit …

@Janis_Erdmanis Please be aware of Julia’s precompilation targets. Cross references: System Image Building · The Julia Language Is it possible to make precompilation portable (for docker images built with a different CPU)?

I already take thoose into account - AppBundler.jl/src/Utils/Stage.jl at f5aec5b1e61cb731954dd3fa1a000d3232dc6afa · PeaceFounder/AppBundler.jl · GitHub Have you had precompilation cache invalidation?

I overlooked AppBundler.jl. Just looked at Jumbo . Have you had precompilation cache invalidation? I do not use Jumbo.

Juicy :cup_with_straw: :smiling_face_with_sunglasses: But the name decision has been taken, and Jumbo has been decided as the new name now. [image] Janis_Erdmanis: Given the strong preference for Jumbo, I have decided to go with that name.

[ANN] Jumbo - a scientific Julia distribution

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@Janis_Erdmanis Please be aware of Julia’s precompilation targets.

Cross references:

System Image Building · The Julia Language
Is it possible to make precompilation portable (for docker images built with a different CPU)?

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[ANN] Jumbo - a scientific Julia distribution

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